Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
Walter Darby Bannard
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
Assumptions
Assumption
Correct
Confidence
Usually
Often
Presumptuous
More quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
Walter Darby Bannard
When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
Walter Darby Bannard
Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
Walter Darby Bannard
When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
Walter Darby Bannard
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
Walter Darby Bannard
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
Walter Darby Bannard
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
Walter Darby Bannard
When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
Walter Darby Bannard
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
Walter Darby Bannard
Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
Walter Darby Bannard
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
Walter Darby Bannard
One needs to be right before getting righteous.
Walter Darby Bannard
When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
Walter Darby Bannard
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
Walter Darby Bannard
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
Walter Darby Bannard
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
Walter Darby Bannard
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
Walter Darby Bannard
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
Walter Darby Bannard
Most art is just surface noise.
Walter Darby Bannard
